SHOULD YOU DRINK MORE WATER IN THE WINTER? + VIDEO UPDATE!

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In this video I give some information and give you an update of my videos. The video is a little long because I decided to relax doing it :) Thanks...Please visit our website http://bushcraftbartons.com/

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what you see in front of you is yellow birch now if you're fortunate enough to find you a birch yellow bird what's neat about this kind of birch they don't need to prepare it to start with a in your fire steel because it's already thin enough and works actually great you know I don't even have to prepare it or nothing it's already ready now I have a little bit too much here obviously for the kind of fire and one them do because I don't need a man to stay here all day but why does it catch so easy or why I wouldn't say so easy but why you don't need any preparation because it's so thin okay if you get you can get a spark hot spark to catch on the side here it's going to catch for you now keep in mind that during the winter everything is harder you got to wear more clothes heavier bring more gear with you in the bush the wood is frozen harder to chop cut down tree or whatever even the saw and even the fire is a little bit harder because it's so cold when it's colder you need a hotter spark to get this going and once it's going well you need to really fuel your fire to keep it hot because during the Cold what you know would tends to burn faster so another thing that's neat about birch bark is that this on the tree was full of snow it was frozen a little bit still is a little bit wet but that won't stop it you know from from catching so just no preparation needed that's what's neat about this right spark should we drink more water in the winter in the wintertime well the answer to that should be in general you should drink a lot more than you think you should drink the reason being is that in the summertime well your body tends to show you a lot easier when you're dehydrated you know it's hot outside you're overheating you're sweating you become dry or thirsty it's pretty obvious but in the wintertime it's not as obvious but your body needs as much water as in the summertime if not a little more now when this in case you didn't know this you know when you breathe

see that steam coming out it's not just heat its water its moisture as well why well your lungs are filled up with moisture so that's one way of seeing your body extract moisture from your body because what happens in the summertime you can't see it but in the wintertime when he comes out of your body and the temperature outside is colder well hot and cold makes what condensation so you see these little droplets of water that's water it's not just heat coming out of your body but water but it's very important very important to drink and I'll tell you why now what I'm doing right now I'm initiating my brand new Jesus I Cup haven't used it yet first time I'm so used to my kettle I love that kettle but this is just great to try out we'll see if I like it anyway I'm just taking my time explaining guys I'm relaxing today ah your body to be able to stay warm naturally you know produce body heat your blood flow needs to flow naturally and if you lack water and you don't drink that blood flow is going to slow down and cool you down so that's why it's important to drink water even if you're not thirsty just drink as much as you can you go on a hike you go out I don't know a couple days even if you're not thirsty drink drink drink the more you drink the more hydrated you'll be and the harder your body will be able to keep you warm if you don't drink it slows down close down and then you become cold so that's one main reason which is probably the main reason all right snow I always put my cup or my kettle in the winter time just to make it warm now I've done this video once in the past but you know that I lost all my videos and I can't seem to find it again so I decided to read just put with this one anyway concerning snow now we know that snow is ninety percent what air good and ten percent water ice ninety percent what that's right water and ten percent air of course if you find ice it's always best to melt that one down but when you have snow because it's ninety percent air it makes a good insulator so if you take this the snow as it is and fill up your cup it's going to take a longer time to melt down because its insulating the heat from the bottom to the snow it's lacking oxygen because it's well insulated as it's going to take a little longer to melt now I'm not saying it doesn't melt okay I often do it too if I'm in a rush i'll just throw some snow in and go and do what have to do but what I've known a rush I put them in balls like this try and get the air out as much as I can to make it look as much as like a piece of ice and I'll put it in and I'll make a few more

as many as I can or as many as it's going to fit in here that's gonna melt a little bit faster and once you have water in here after that all you need to do is take your snow as is and fill it up pull it up it's going to melt wait it's going to melt that way I find I get my water a lot faster now this here is fresh snow and you know I just take it but that if you're in the middle final wintertime let's say daddy we're favored lot of snow let's take the top layer off because that's where the most pollutants will be get the fresh snow under now pollutants there's not much we can do about pollutants gotta live with them guys you know unless you live right beside a factory that's you know producing some chemical I mean there's no problems I mean we breathe in pollutants probably more than we drink water so it's best to drink because you'll probably die of dehydration before you die of pollution snow so now that my cup is nice and warm I'm going to install this in a way and it starts melting the snow as fast as I can now obviously it's always better to have a cover because having a cover keeps the heat in and you don't waste your water let me get the camera a second show you what's going on here see that's melting pretty fast I already have quarter of an inch in there of water once this is melted down I'm going to have almost half an inch then after that all I have to do is add snow like it is fluffy that's going to melt a lot easier okay sorry about the camera moving like that let me put you guys back see that's all it's just a little 25 cents left and when you have time to do it like this do it I didn't make a really big fire because there's a storm coming in as I can see and I just want it to make myself a coffee ok so now all melted now all you have to do see that it melts as I put it in I'm almost at an inch it's a little bit filled up give it time cuz you always need the water just relaxing today guys not editing just chatting with you a little bit giving you some information at the same time and no I'm human my hand is frozen right now but I got something nice beside here well I'm out here hypothermia is a big factor obviously we will not know that concerning especially the wintertime that's why it's very important to stay hydrated and warm not sweat just wet dry your clothes up but a good sign that I was taught i think it was in the scouts or a long time ago anyway cuz hypothermia as we all know what happens is the blood from your extremities goes away you know first sign just chill and then blood comes and wants to protect your core so then you become real kool your feet your hands but a good sign is obviously you don't get to they're good but we don't know about the situation you're in so a good sign before you even get to this if you can't touch your thumb and your pinky together you're in the danger zone right there that means the next place it's going to affect as your brain and want it affects your brain well you're pretty much out of luck if you're alone then you'll become confused and

doing a lot of mistakes wanting to fall asleep that should be good enough so I got about two and a half inches of water now all I'm going to do is wait for it to warm up because I'm having myself a coffee so just have a few more things to tell you guys don't go away all right my water's warm now it's time you guessed it coffee hope about its food it's gotta love coffee everything tastes seems to taste so much better in the woods some reason I had that question asked of me I'm a southern friend he said

why does everything you seem to taste so much better you know fool coffee when you're out here well I told them I'm no scientist and no I'm not smart just a guess but I think it's because of oxygen believe it or not we're out here we breathe in pure oxidant and I think it makes things taste better now I may be in the potatoes well that's what I think anyway well if you think you have an answer I'd be interested in hearing it maybe there is a scientist here that has a better answer than that but it's not in our heads for sure things do taste better give you one last tip concerning water man I'm gonna you know when we boiled water usually go in the rivers and creeks whatever you have around your place and it's going to be good now we usually boil water for a coffee or food and stuff it's rare we're going to boil water to drink you know because we're not in that situation and we got water with us now i'm talking about when you boil water i'm not talking about when you purify it okay with tablets and stuff but if you've ever tried boiling water you know from the creek maybe sticky in there ever tried boiling water from the creek and I and you know in order for in order to drink it you know you let it cool down it doesn't taste that great if you've done before you know what I mean it doesn't taste great now the reason for that is because again it's a lack of oxygen in your water when you boil it you burn all the oxygen so one thing you could do if you have another container that's clean you just take the one that you boiled once it's cooled this empty ones in here and you just dump it in do this don't put in the other one dump it in this one dump it in the other would do this about 10-15 times and oxygen is going to go in your water and it's going to taste much better okay I have another question if you guys can answer that I'm going to be happy why is it that smoke follows you all the time that's beyond me if I sit there the smokes gonna go there fice it there the smokes gonna go there you know got you know what I mean let's taste this

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thought I had a cookie I bring a cookie I'm almost done guys you're still with me I appreciate it I know I'm taking my time in this video what's long and boring but sometimes I like to do that it's less stressful for me too mmm frozen cookie okay a little update as you as you very well know especially the older subscribers once upon a time I lost all my videos and I had to start over and I told you guys that if you'd have any requests to repost them because I wouldn't be reposing all of them but if you had any requests a repo wanted me to repost my I do it now there's some that I done already in the summertime and there's some I couldn't do because I can't find it there's some that I redone also but for the month of January it's a good month for me to do that because I really have no time to go in the woods and well there's a lot of snow and stuff and anyway but for the month of January you guys that asked me to you know those older videos those requests during the wintertime I'm going to post them all in the month of january i have to do it because there's people that are waiting for them and i don't want to disappoint you so now these videos are not in HD okay but i still hope you got to take time to watch them I enjoy them thank you for your patience you know means a lot to me frozen cookie is not good okay I'm close enough